News Startups Digital financial services firm Indifi raises ₹340 crore in equity and debt financing 2020 and 2021 have been opposites – while the previous year adversely… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 26, 2021
Business News B2B e-commerce upstart Udaan to now enter consumer-focused grocery business With the changing times, companies have resorted to stepping out of their… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 25, 2021
Futurism News Space NASA launches a “DART” at space to kick asteroid off course amid a planned planetary defense test If you have watched Mimi Leder’s film “Deep Impact,” where a manned… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 25, 2021
Global Internet News Startups Podcasting platform Podimo gobbles up $78 million in Series B round The tastes of people are changing as more and more users are… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 24, 2021
News Startups Venture Capital Blume Ventures announces first close at $105Mn for its fourth fund Blume Ventures, one of the most prominent and among the oldest homegrown… Staff@The Tech PortalNovember 24, 2021
Crypto Culture & Policy News New crypto law in India soon to ban all private cryptocurrencies, with a few ‘exceptions’ Cryptocurrency has had a contradictory journey in India – on one hand,… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 23, 2021
Business Internet News Netflix is acquiring Scanline VFX, the German visual effects studio behind ‘Stranger Things’, ‘GOT’ among others Netflix wants to push the pedal on visual content. And while its… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalNovember 23, 2021
Apps Culture & Policy Internet News Instagram, Facebook Messenger will not get end-to-end encryption as a default, before 2023 If you use WhatsApp, then you are no stranger to end-to-end encryption.… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 23, 2021
News Startups Tier-II focused test prep startup Toppersnotes rakes in $1Mn as it looks to scale It would be an understatement to say, that Education has changed in… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 23, 2021
News Startups GetSetUp, a platform that provides niche learning courses for older adults, gets $10Mn in fresh fundraise To say that the startup sector in India has undergone a revolution… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 22, 2021
Business News Paytm says it clocked $11.2Bn in Oct’21 “GMV”, but that isn’t arresting its share price slide Paytm, the digital payments giant that had a forgettable public market debut… Deepanshu KhandelwalandSoumyadeep SarkarNovember 22, 2021
News Startups Flipkart enters online pharmacy space with SastaSundar.com acquisition, announces ‘Flipkart Health+’ India’s highly lucrative but fiercely competitive online healthcare space will now see… Staff@The Tech PortalNovember 19, 2021
Electric News Apple could deliver its first self-driving EV by 2025: Report As the demand for electric vehicles has increased with the rise of… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 19, 2021
Culture & Policy Internet News Facebook tests a new News Feed that will let you see less from groups, more from friends If you are still one of those who regularly uses Facebook, you’d… Global Staff @ The Tech PortalNovember 19, 2021
Business Crypto News Fintech startup Defy snaps up $5.5Mn to create India’s first social crypto exchange platform 2021 has been kind to the startup sector in India, clocking many… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 18, 2021
Business Global News Grammarly raises a staggering $200Mn in fresh fundraise Grammarly, the popular writing correction platform that has literally become a writer-household… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 18, 2021
Business News Paytm makes an expected, muted public market debut at ₹1950, shares continue to slide 2021 has a been a year of reckoning for India’s startup ecosystem.… Staff@The Tech PortalNovember 18, 2021
Business News Startups Venture Capital Better Capital raises $15.28 million for its maiden fund 2021 has become the golden year for the startup ecosystem in the… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 17, 2021
Business Crypto Culture & Policy News India could soon allow Cryptocurrency as an asset, but not a legal tender There has been a buzz for quite some time, about India —… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 17, 2021
News Startups Employee management platform SalaryBox gets seeded with $4Mn from Y-Combinator, others SalaryBox, a fintech startup that specialises as an employee management platform, has… Staff@The Tech PortalNovember 17, 2021
Apps Business News Twitter is acquiring Threader, a platform that eases users in finding popular tweet threads Twitter has been making acquisitions left and right this year, and Threader… Soumyadeep SarkarNovember 16, 2021